As a consequence the use of the Cinemascope 35mm four-track magnetic sound format decreased significantly during the course of the 1960s and effectively ended with the success of the Dolby Stereo optical stereo format in the late 1970s.

Cinemascope, which would remain a 20th Century Fox distinction until 1967, was announced with 1953's The Robe.

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather ( 1956 ) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to " I Like Myself ", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope.

By 1932, the Great Depression had forced studios to cut back on needless expense and it was not until 1953 that wider aspect ratios were again used in an attempt to stop the fall in attendance due, partially, to the emergence of television in the U. S. However, a few producers and directors, among them Alfred Hitchcock, have been reluctant to use the anamorphic widescreen size featured in such formats as Cinemascope.

A Cinemascope film version of Brigadoon, directed by Vincente Minnelli, was released by MGM in 1954 with Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse in leading roles.

This was the studio's first motion picture to be filmed in Cinemascope.

The film was literally shot in two versions, the Todd-AO one, distributed by Mike Todd's Magna productions and RKO, and a Cinemascope one for theatres not able to handle Todd-AO, which at that time used a curved screen reminiscent of Cinerama, as well as six-track stereophonic sound.

The Cinemascope version, which made use of the standard rectangular Cinemascope screen and four-track stereo, was released by Twentieth Century-Fox a year after the Todd-AO version, and is the one that most audiences have seen.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Cinerama name was used as a film distribution company, ironically reissuing single strip 70 mm and 35 mm Cinemascope reduction prints of This Is Cinerama ( 1972 ).

The most notable addition was the GameDay Stadium, which shows an NFL Films production on a by Cinemascope screen.

In the 1956 Cinemascope Tom and Jerry cartoon, Blue Cat Blues, he was Jerry's voice who narrated the short ; he had also voiced Jerry's cousin Muscles in Jerry's Cousin five years earlier.

This technique was first introduced in September, 1953 by Hazard E. Reeves for Cinemascope.

This showed some commercial success as a limited location ( only in major cities ) exhibition of the technology in This is Cinerama, but the only memorable story-telling film of two made for this technology was How the West Was Won, widely seen only in its Cinemascope re-release.

The musical was made into a Cinemascope film in 1955 by MGM, directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Howard Keel as Hajj, Ann Blyth as Marsinah, Dolores Gray as Lalume, and Vic Damone as the Caliph.

Stereoscopic 3-D was an alternative technology ( like Cinemascope and Cinerama ) used by 1950s studios attempting to compete with the new threat of television.

Retitled New Faces, the film version was directed by Harry Horner in Cinemascope and Eastmancolor, and released by Twentieth Century Fox on March 6, 1954.

The Cinemascope movie was directed by Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg.

The film had originally been made in Cinemascope 55 and was now re-released in a process called Grandeur 70.

Another exception was Franco Zeffirelli's hugely successful 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, which, although photographed in beautiful settings and certainly having the look of an epic, was shown in most areas in monaural sound ( although its three soundtrack albums were all made in stereo ), and at a screen aspect ratio of 1. 66: 1 ; that is, roughly the width of today's average movie screen or HDTV screen, not the very wide screens required for films made in Ultra Panavision, Cinemascope, Todd-AO or any of the other ultrawide processes invented in the 1950s.

The film was shot using both Cinemascope wide screen movie formatting and color by DeLuxe.

A wide aspect ratio screen was installed in 1954, along with a surround sound system to accommodate the new Cinemascope pictures.

The film was shot in Todd-AO and Cinemascope versions.

The middle of the three decks has a low ceiling and when the house lights are turned off during game play gives the distinct impression of watching a Cinemascope movie of basketball.

John Mosely used one of these systems ( QS from Sansui ) to record front left, front right, back left and back right channels on the left and right tracks of a 4-track magnetic striped print of the Cinemascope type.

Cinemascope, Panavision, Technirama and other widescreen formats use anamorphosis to project a wider image from a narrower film frame.

Todd-AO adopted a similar multi-channel magnetic sound system to the one developed for Cinemascope two years earlier, recorded on " stripes " of magnetic oxide deposited on the film.

In later years, it became possible to show a Todd-AO film on a Cinemascope screen without having to shoot two versions in two different formats.

" After tricking him into selling them several dangerous ninja weapons ( parental permission is required if the hopeful buyer is under 18 ; Cartman uses this information to pretend that he, Kenny, Kyle and Stan are orphaned brothers, a ruse the boys have apparently successfully used " like twelve times " in the past ), they pretend to be ninjas, only to transform into anime-like characters with their own individual superpowers, as the animation style takes on an overall Japanese look and switches to a Cinemascope aspect ratio.

Meanwhile, in order to compete with television and lure audiences away from their sets, producers of theatrical motion pictures began to use " widescreen " formats such as Cinemascope and Todd-AO in the early-to-mid 1950s, which enable more panoramic vistas and present other compositional opportunities.

* February 16 – Only a little more than four months after the release of the 70mm version of Oklahoma !, the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, is released in Cinemascope 55.

( 1955 ), previously released to select cities in Todd-AO, now receives a national release in Cinemascope, since not all theatres are yet equipped for Todd-AO.

Burton returned to Hollywood to star in Prince of Players, another historical Cinemascope film, this time concerning Edwin Booth, famous American actor and brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth.

Critics felt that the film lacked star chemistry, with Burton having difficulty with the accent, and relied too heavily on Cinemascope special effects including an earthquake and a collapsing dam.

However Todd-AO has six channels instead of the four of Cinemascope and due to the wider stripes and faster film speed provides superior audio quality.

* Prince Valiant is a 1954 US motion picture by 20th Century Fox, filmed in color and Cinemascope.

Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope production, the film adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge ’ s 1953 Pulitzer Prize winning play.

The anamorphic encoding on DVD is related to the anamorphic filming technique ( aka Cinemascope ) only by name.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

The standard format was that of speakers making speeches for and against a position followed by a general vote ( usually by show of hands ) of yes or no.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

Tridgell was also a leader in hacking the TiVo to make it work in Australia, which uses the PAL video format.

The distinctive “ double-pull ” format that typifies most of these songs — also at times used, with slight changes, for pumps, windlass, and capstan, too — was a later development that appears to owe much to African-American work songs.

The " open-topped " design format of the Panzerjäger vehicles was succeeded by the Jagdpanzer '(" hunting tanks ") which mounted the gun in true casemate-style superstructures, completely enclosing the crew compartment in armor that would usually be integral to the hull.

The mainstream song " Saved by Love " was a minor hit, receiving airplay on radio stations featuring the newly emerging Adult Contemporary format.

The format was common on NeXT systems and on early Web pages.

DXF was originally introduced in December 1982 as part of AutoCAD 1. 0, and was intended to provide an exact representation of the data in the AutoCAD native file format, DWG ( Drawing ), for which Autodesk for many years did not publish specifications.

This was done to accommodate the new one-game wild-card playoffs .< re > http :// espn. go. com / mlb / story / _ / id / 7942366 / owners-approve-wild-card-winners-hosting-games-1-2-division-series </ ref > Historically, however, MLB has used rarely the 2-3 format in a best-of-5 series ..

The proposed format was three provincial games in Argentina followed by two international tests, followed by three provincial games in Australia followed by three international tests.

The format of the column was a random assortment of small paragraphs which were otherwise unconnected.

It has been awarded eight Pulitzer Prizes in its history, including four for editorial writing and three for photography before it was converted to tabloid format in 1981.

The Herald American was printed in broadsheet format, and failed to target a particular readership ; where the Record American had been a typical city tabloid, the Herald Traveler was a Republican paper.

The format was used in Australia in the form of Friday Night Live from Series 5 until Series 8.

* Microsoft Word 2000 was backward compatible with Word 97 because it could read and write files in Word 97 format, with the understanding that features unique to Word 2000 would not appear in Word 97.

The last book in this format was Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes in 1922, a collection of favourite rhymes.

The film was shot in the anamorphic format with Panavision C-and E-Series lenses.

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

Jimmy Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time was often drawn in the two-panel format as seen in this 1943 example.

Jimmy Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time was often displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing the truth of the situation.

A Spanish version, with a similar format and using a slightly revised version of the 1909 Reina-Valera translation, was published in 2009.